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[CAAS] Japan: Politics, Economy, and Society
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This course aims to familiarize students with basic formations in politics, economy, and society within Japan. It will introduce the central institutional arrangements in Japan, the challenges they have faced, and how they have changed as a way to examine Japanese prospects in the 21st century.
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From economic miracle to economic doldrums, from the birthplace of “Japan Cool” to a “Galapagos” in East Asia, from an aging society on a demographic precipice to a dynamic youth culture driving soft power, Japan in the twenty-first century is hard to place. Yet there is little – to take up the provocation of Masao Miyoshi – that is not interesting. This course will explore the key contours of Japan today by focusing on contemporary debates and critical junctures it now faces. Simultaneously, the class aims to unravel the image of Japan as home to a well-oiled, isolated, groupist society by drawing out the tensions and frictions transforming it.
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Japan, politics, economy, society
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Day 1: Focus on Political Life
1. Contemporary political structures
2. Post-war political system: part I
3. Post-war political system: part II
4. Recent political transformations
Day 2: Focus on Economic Life
5. Capitalism in Japan, neoliberal transformations?
6. Outside the system?: Class, inequality, and youth prospects
7. Outside the system?: Women at work and at home
8: Fieldtrip 1
Day 3: Focus on Social Life
9. Outsiders within: foreigners in Japan
10. Cool Japan and culture industries
11. Nationalism and neo-nationalism
12. Fieldtrip 2
Day 4: Contemporary Debates
13. Politics now: Abe, Abenomics, Abemania
14. Constitutional revision
15. Debating constitutional revision
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Essay of 2000 words (70%)
Class debate (20%)
Attendance and participation (10%)
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| 英語(E*) 一部日本語を含む |
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| Lecture in English, discussion in Japanese or English |
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